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Konrad, Zuse; designed for engineering processes "Plan Calculus"
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John Backus; suited to numeric computation and scientifiv computing, Formula Translating System.
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Charles Katz; intended to be an improved version of FORTRAN.
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Russel, Hart, and Levin; can manipulate source code as a data structure. "List Processing"
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Grace Hopper; produc ed for business use. Common- Business- oriented language.
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IBM developed for business applications. Report Program Generator.
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John G. Kennedy and Thomas E. Kurtz; produced for students in fields other than science and math. Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic instruction Code.
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Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert; educational programming language that taught concepts of programming by producing line graphics.
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Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie; designed for non-numeric, recursive, machine independent application. The name is thought of to be a contraction of BCPL, a different language.
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Niklaus Wirth; small/efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices. Named after Blaise Pascal.
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Dennis Ritchie; general, all-purpose programming language that allows users to create instructions for a computer to follow.
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Robin Milner; concieved to develop proof tactics in the LCF throrem prover. "Meta Language"
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Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce; designed for managing data held in a relational database management system. "Structured Query Language"
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Charles Babbage; large-scale programming for the US Secretary of Defense.
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Bjarne Strousrup, Generic program featuring low level memory manipulation.
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Guido van Rossum; emphasizes code readability and allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code.
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Microsoft allows programmers to create an application using components provided by the Visual Basic program.
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Borland; Native code compiler that contains tools to make programming for Windows easy.
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James Gosling/ Sun Microsystems; Allows a code that runs on one platform to run on another without being recompiled. Named Java from Java coffee, because it is consumed in large quantities.
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Brendan Eich; used by web browsers and allows the user and client-side scripts to interact.
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Rasmus Lerdorf; designed for web development, "Hypertext Preprocessor"